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(NYU) African-American Anthropology Arts: Art,
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2 new periodicals
Note:
Many titles have more than one subject classification.
However, in the interest of space, only the primary
subject category for each title is listed here.
Additional subject areas can be found in the detailed
description of the individual titles.
Behind
the Scenes, Elizabeth
Keckley
Cholas
and Pishtacos, Mary
Weismantel
Our
Women Are Free, Wynne
Maggi
Three
Faces of Beauty, Susan
Ossman
The
Art of History, Lisa Gail
Collins
Aftershocks
of the New Feminism and Film
History, Patrice
Petro
Imagining
Her Erotics, Carolee
Schneemann
Chorizos
in an Iron Skillet, Mary Ancho
Davis
Embalming
Mom, Janet Burroway
From
Beacon Hill to the Crystal
Palace, Lorenza Stevens
Berbineau and edited by Karen L. Kilcup
My Life
as a Radical Jewish Woman,
Puah Rakovsky and edited by Paula Hyman
Phantom
Limb, Janet
Sternburg
The
Akhmatova Journals, Lydia
Chukovskaya, Translated from the Russian by Milena and
Sylva Rubashova Michalski and Poetry translated from the
Russian by Peter Norman
Annie
Adams Fields, Rita K.
Gollin
Cleopatra,
Michel Chauveau and Translated from the French by David
Lorton
Rare and
Commonplace Flowers, Carmen L.
Oliveira and Translated by Neil K. Besner
When
Montana and I Were Young,
Margaret Bell and Edited and with an introduction by Mary
Clearman Blew
Measuring
Up, Vickie Rutledge Shields
and with Dawn Heinecken
Pornography, Sex, and Feminism, Alan Soble
In Nature's
Name, Barbara T. Gates,
editor
The
Jossey-Bass Reader on Gender in
Education, Susan M. Bailey
[forward by]
My
Mother's Lovers, Joy
Passanante
Small
Rocks Rising, Susan
Lang
Quilt
Stories, Cecilia Macheski,
editor
Leash,
Jane DeLynn
The Truth
about Alicia and Other
Stories, Ana Consuelo
Matiella
Equality
Practice, William N. Eskridge,
Jr.
Queering
India, Ruth Vanita,
editor
American
Women, Sheridan Harvey, Janice
Ruth, Barbara Natanson, Sara Day and Evelyn Sinclair,
editors
Domestic
Violence in Medieval Texts,
Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin and Merrall Llewelyn
Price
Double
Agents, Clare A. Lees and
Gillian Overing
First
Converts, Shelly Matthews
Vichy and
the Eternal Feminine, Francine
Muel-Dreyfus and Translated by Kathleen A. Johnson
Wings,
Women, & War, Reina
Pennington
Women and
Property in China, 960-1949,
Kathryn Bernhardt
Women in
Purple, Judith
Herrin
The
Chinese Women's Movement Between State and
Market, Ellen R. Judd
Gender,
Law, and Resistance in India,
Erin P. Moore
Walking
on Fire, Beverly
Bell
A
Queer Mother for the Nation,
Licia Fiol-Matta
Dinah's
Daughters, Helena Zlotnick
"Lost on
the Map of the World",
Phillipa Kafka, editor
I Am My
Language, Norma
González
Moving
from the Margins, Adela de la
Torre
A Reader
in Latina Feminist Theology,
María Pilar Aquino, Daisy L. Machado and Leanette
Rodríguez, editors
Among
Women, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
and Lisa Auanger, editors
No More
Secrets, Janice L.
Ristock
Anna
Seghers, Helen Fehervary
A
Calendar of the Letters of Willa
Cather, Janis P. Stout,
editor
Chicana
Ways, Karin Rosa Ikas
The Lover
as Father Figure in Eighteenth-Century Women's
Fiction, Eleanor Wikborg
Reading
Autobiography, Sidonie Smith
and Julia Watson
Southern
Women Playwrights, Robert L.
McDonald and Linda Rohrer Paige, editors
We Who
Love to Be Astonished, Laura
Hinton and Cynthia Hogue, editor
Writing
the Pioneer Woman, Janet
Floyd
bonelight,
Mary Sojourner
Medieval
Woman's Song, Anne L. Klinck
and Ann Marie Rasmussen, editors
Turtle
Lung Woman's Granddaughter,
Delphine Red Shirt
Feminist
Europa, Giovanni Covi,
Waltraud Dumont duVoitel and Tobe Levin,
editors
Pakistan Journal
of Women's Studies, Tahera
Aftab, editor
The Fate
of Knowledge, Helen
Longino
A
Chorus for Peace, Marilyn
Arnold, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill and Kristen Tracy,
editors
Little
River, Linda McCarriston
Mother
in Summer, Susan Hahn
Shulamith,
Julia Stein
The
Zoo, Joanie
Mackowski
Unlocking
the Clubhouse, Jane Margolis
and Allan Fisher
Bisexuality
Spaces, Clare
Hemmings
For Better
and For Worse, Greg J. Duncan
and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, editors
The
Hammer and the Flute, Mary
Keller
Aftermath,
Susan Brison
Protest,
Policy and the Problem of Violence Against
Women, S. Laurel Weldon
Telling
Incest, Janice Doane and Devon
Hodges
American
Women of Letter and the Nineteenth-Century
Sciences, Nina Baym
Apology
for the Woman Writing and Other
works, Marie deGournay, Edited
& Translated by Richard Hillman and Collette
Quesnel
Appropriate[ing]
Dress, Carol Mattingly
Between
Women and Generations,
Drucilla Cornell
Disciplining
Feminism, Ellen
Messer-Davidow
Eighty
Years and More, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton and Introduction by Denise M. Marshall
Emotionally
Involved, Rebecca Campbell
Feminism
in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and
Medicine, Angela N.H. Creager,
Elizabeth Lunbeck and Londa Schiebinger, editors
Gender
and Rhetorical Space in American Life,
1866-1910, Nan Johnson
The
Man-Made World, Charlotte
Perkins Gilman and Introduction by Mary A. Hill
Mothering
across Cultures, Angelita
Reyes
No More
Separate Spheres!, Cathy N.
Davidson and Jessamyn Hatcher, editors
Passionate
Journeys, Marion S.
Goldman
"The
Penalty is Death", Marlin
Shipman
Selected
Letter of Lucretia Coffin
Mott, Beverly Wilson
Palmer
Sex and
Money, Eileen R. Meehan and
Ellen Riordan, editors
Woman,
Church and State, Matilda
Joslyn Gage and Introduction by Sally Raesch Wagner
Women in
the Barracks, Phillippa
Strum
Women's
Activism and Globalization,
Nancy A. Naples and Manisha Desai, editors
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There were some titles from 2001 that slipped through the cracks -- too late for the last column but now slightly too old for this column. I have listed them here just fyi. They are listed alphabetically by title.The Academic Job Search Handbook: 3rd edition, Mary Morris Heiberger and Julia Miller Vick, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, $15.95 pb, 0-8122-1778-0, 2001. **** Work & Labor; Reference/Directories Reissue now available
After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua, Florence E. Babb, Univ. of Texas Press, $24.95 pb, 0-292-70900-5, or $50.00 cl, 0-292-70899-8, 2001. ** International: Latin & Central America; Women's Studies; Anthropology
Barbara C. Jordan: Selected Speeches, Sandra Parham, editor, Howard Univ. Press, $17.95 pb, 0-88258-199-6, 1999. **** Politics
Choosing Revolution: Chinese women Soldiers on the Long March, Helen Praeger Young, Univ. of Illinois Press, $35.00 cl, 0-252-02672-1, 2001. * History; International: Asia; Women's Studies Also of interest
Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565, Walter Simons, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, $65.00 cl, 0-8122-3604-1, 2001. History; Women's Studies; Spirituality/Religion
Cultural Divides: Understanding and Overcoming Group Conflict, Deborah A. Prentice and Dale T. Miller, editors, Russell Sage Foundation, $18.50 pb, 0-87154-689-2, 2001. ** Multicultural: General; Race Theory; Psychology Now in paperback
Culture, Difference & Power, Christine E. Sleeter, Teacher's College Press, $35.95 cl, 0-8077-4073-X, 2001. Part of the Multicultural education Series, this books comes ONLY on a Multimedia CD-ROM for both Windows and Macintosh. From the introduction: "This e-book has been created primarily for teachers, or those preparing to become teachers, to help them learn how to create curriculum and teaching that is multicultural, critical and responsive to their students and their students' communities." In my perusal, for the purposes of this e-book, culture refers only to racial and ethnic communities. It does not refer to women's issues or to glbt issues. But it's hard to know because there is no index, which I find to be the most difficult missing piece. Because it exists in a multimedia context, it's possible to wander around in this product to your own places of interest. It is also interactive, asking frequently for the user's own writings and decisions. The references are accessible in a pop-up window which is useful. It does have a free teachers manual accessible from the publisher website. This product is an interesting in its innovation but I'm not sure how it will be practically useful. I will be curious to find out, though.**** Education; Multicultural: General
Deaf Girls Rule: A Photographic Essay of the 1999 Champion Gallaudet University Women's Basketball Team, Wendy Tiefenbacher, editor, Gallaudet Univ. Press, $39.95 cl, 1-56368-117-X, 2001. "Our story is not just about the game. Our story is that deafness is not a handicap or a disability. Look at these women. they're strong, talented, beautiful, and completely in control." -- Wendy Tiefenbacher **** Women's Studies; Arts: Art, Photography; Sports/Outdoors <font color=red>** Recommended</font>
Educating Women: Cultural Conflict and Victorian Literature, Laura Morgan Green, Ohio Univ. Press, $16.95 pb, 0-8214-1403-8, or $42.95 cl, 0-8214-1402-X, 2001. ** Literary Criticism; Education
Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America, Carmen Diana Deere and Magdalena León, Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8229-5767-1, 2001. International: Latin & Central America; Women's Studies; Politics
Reissue now available
The Family Nobody Wanted, Helen Doss, Northeastern Univ. Press, $16.95 pb, 1-55553-502-X, or $45.00 cl, 1-55553-503-8, 2001. Originally published in 1954, this is the story of a couple who adopted 12 children, 10 of whom were considered "unadoptable" because of their mixed racial parentage. **** Autobiography/MemoirFor Fear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity, Françoise Meltzer, Univ. of Chicago Press, $20.00 pb, 0-226-51982-1, or $52.00 cl, 0-226-51981-3, 2001. This writing uses the story of Joan of Arc as a guide for reading the postmodern nostalgia for the body. Back cover recommendation by Judith Butler. ** Literary Criticism; Spirituality/Religion
Gender and Community: Muslim Women's Rights in India, Vrinda Narain, Univ. of Toronto Press, $50.00 (Canadian) cl, 0-8020-4869-2, 2001. Narain explores the tensions between Muslim collectivity as supported by state structures that reinforce women's subordination in India. The author seeks ways the forward women's equality without compromising group claims. *** International: Asia; Gender Studies
Gorillas Among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's Book of Days, Dawn Prince-Hughes and forward by Jane Goodall, Univ of Arizona Press, $17.95 pb, 0-8165-2151-4, or $40.00 cl, 0-8165-2150-6, 2001. *** Biology/Natural History; Ecology & Environment
Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames: Women's Narratives from a Diaspora of Hope, Jael Silliman, Brandeis University Press, $24.95 cl, 1-58465-169-5, 2001. This memoir/ethnography offers a family portrait of four generations of Jewish women from Calcutta. **** Jewish Women; Autobiography/Memoir; Culture/Cultural Studies
Judging Bertha Wilson: Law as Large as Life, Ellen Anderson, Univ. of Toronto Press, $50.00 cl, 0-8020-3648-1, 2001. Bertha Wilson was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada. **** Biography; Law
Labors Appropriate to Their Sex: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900-1930, Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, Duke Univ. Press, $21.95 pb, 0-8223-2742-2, or $64.95 cl, 0-8223-2732-5, 2001. * International: Latin & Central America; History; Work & Labor; Women's Studies
The Land of Bliss, Cathy Song, Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, $12.95 pb, 0-8229-5770-1, 2001. **** Poetry
Lori: My Daughter, Wrongfully Imprisoned in Peru, Rhoda Berenson, Northeastern Univ. Press, $15.95 pb, 1-55553-498-8, 2001. **** Politics Reissue now available
Manderley: Poems, Rebecca Wolff, Univ. of Illinois Press, $12.95 pb, 0-252-07005-4, or $29.95 cl, 0-252-02698-5, 2001. Selected by Robert Pinsky as one of five in the National Poetry Series. **** Poetry
Maps of Women's Going and Stayings, Rela Mazali, Stanford Univ. Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8047-3293-0, 2001. *** Gender Studies; Jewish Women; Literature
Margaret Laurence: Critical Reflections, David Staines, Univ. of Ottawa Press, $19.95 pb, 0-7766-0446-5, 2001. Margaret Laurence is one of Canada's most acclaimed fiction writers. Staines has gathered the essays of 12 scholars, writers, and critics who explore Laurence's work, the dimensions of her career, and her influence on young writers. *** Literary Criticism
Memoirs of a Courtesan in Ninetheenth-Century Paris, Céleste Mogador and Translated by Monique Fleury Nagem, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8032-8273-7, or $55.00 cl, 0-8032-3208-X, 2001. **** History; Autobiography/Memoir Reissue now available
Mothers of Heroes and Martyrs: Gender Identity Politics in Nicaragua, 1979-1999, Lorraine Bayard de Volo, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8018-6764-9, 2001. *** International: Latin & Central America; Women's Studies; Politics
Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural differences and Women's Rights, Ayelet Shachar, Cambridge Univ. Press, $19.95 pb, 0-521-77674-0, or $54.95 cl, 0-521-77209-5, 2001. ** Law; Politics; Multicultural: General
My Favorite Lies: Stories, Ruth Hamel, Univ. of Missouri Press, $17.95 pb, 0-8262-1356-1, 2001. **** Fiction: Short Stories
Now in paperback
The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp, Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Univ of Arizona Press, $17.95 pb, 0-8165-2146-8, or $35.00 cl, 0-8165-1864-5, 2001. ** Multicultural: Asian American; Biography; HistoryReconfigurations of Class and Gender, Janeen Baxter and Mark Western, editors, Stanford Univ. Press, $45.00 cl, 0-8047-3841-6, 2001. ** Women's Studies; Work & Labor; Economics
Rosa Raisa: A Biography of a Diva with Selections from Her Memoirs, Charles Mintzer, Northeastern Univ. Press, $30.00 cl, 1-55553-504-6, 2001. Rosa Raisa (1893-1993) was one of the greatest dramatic sopranos of opera's first Golden Age. **** Music; Biography
Sanctuary, Edith Wharton, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, $14.95 pb, 0-8122-1792-6, 2001. **** Literature
Say Little, Do Much: Nursing, Nuns, and Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century, Sioban Nelson, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, $55.00 cl, 0-8122-3614-9, 2001. * History; Health & Medicine; Spirituality/Religion
Sisters of the Academy: Emergent Black Women Scholars in Higher Education, Reitumetse Obakeng and Anna L. Green, editors, Stylus Publishing, $24.95 pb, 1-57922-039-8, or $59.95 cl, 1-57922-038-X, 2001. Why are there so few African American women in higher education academies and why does that number not seem to be increasing? The essays in this volume explore some of the historical, social, cultural, political and academic issues affecting Black women in the academy. **** Women's Studies; African-American; Education <font color=red>** Recommended</font>
Stages of Life: Transcultural Performance & Identity in U.S. Latina Theater, Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez and Nancy Saporta Sternbach, Univ of Arizona Press, $21.95 pb, 0-8165-1829-7, or $45.00 cl, 0-8165-1828-9, 2001. This is the first in-depth study of the entire corpus of Latina theater. *** Latinas; Arts: Music, Dance, Theater
Trading Secrets: A Novel, Paule Constant and Translated by Betsy Wing, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $20.00 pb, 0-8032-6404-6, or $45.00 cl, 0-8032-1510-X, 2001. **** Fiction: General; International: Western Europe
Uplift: The Bra in America, Jane Farrell-Beck and Colleen Gau, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, $35.00 cl, 0-8122-3643-2, 2001. *** History; Women's Studies
Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924, Melanie Susan Gustafson, Univ. of Illinois Press, $34.95 cl, 0-252-02688-8, 2001. ** Politics; History
Women's Working Lives in East Asia, Mary C. Brinton, editor, Stanford Univ. Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8047-4354-1, or $60.00 cl, 0-8047-4149-2, 2001. These essays move away from the influences of the postindustrial West on the working lives of Eastern Asian women. These essays question what is distinctive about women's economic participation in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, three societies that share cultural and demographic similarities. It sheds new light on the labor market and women's opportunities for paid employment. ** International: Asia; Work & Labor; Women's Studies
Feminist
Europa, Giovanni Covi, Waltraud Dumont duVoitel and Tobe
Levin, editors, The German Foundation for Gender Studies,
$subscription pb, 1618-7328, 2002. 2 issues per year. $15.00 for
individuals & $5 for Institutions.
Contact: info@stiftung-frauenforschung.de
www.stiftung-frauenforschung.de
This journal consists of in-depth book reviews of feminist works from
around Europe. The reviews in the inaugural issue focus on
theoretical proposals -- a debate on the complexity of articulating
gendered perspectives. Forthcoming issues will focus on women;s
detective fiction, archeology and history, gender and migration.
(***) Periodicals: Feminist Theory / Culture
Pakistan
Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswam, Tahera Aftab,
editor, , $subscription pb, 1024-1256, 2002. This academic
journal explores many issues of relevance to global feminism and
general women's issues. It also includes reviews (book & film)
and lists many other references (newspapers, news and views) as
well.
For more information: contact PJW_STUD@hotmail.com or call
92-21-8114680. Published in Karachi, Pakistan. (***) Periodicals:
Academic
Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in Literary History and Criticism, Robert L. McDonald and Linda Rohrer Paige, editors, Univ. of Alabama Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8173-1080-0, or $54.95 cl, 0-8173-1079-7, 2002. (**) Literary Criticism; Drama; Regional: South Also of interest
We Who Love to Be Astonished: Experimental Women's Writing and Performance Poetics, Laura Hinton and Cynthia Hogue, editors, Univ. of Alabama Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8173-1095-9, or $59.95 cl, 0-8173-1094-0, 2002. The essays in this volume explores the full-range of women's postmodern experimental writing.It embraces "astonishment" as the site of formalist-feminist invetigations. (**) Literary Criticism
Gender,
Law, and Resistance in India, Erin P. Moore, Univ of
Arizona Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8165-2238-3, 2002.
(**) International: Asia; Law; Women's Studies Now in
paperback
I Am
My Language: Discourses of Women and Children in the Borderlands,
Norma González, Univ of Arizona Press, $35.00 cl,
0-8165-1893-9, 2002.
Norma González uses language as a window on multiple levels of
identity construction in children, exploring language practices and
discourses of Mexican-origin mothers and the language socialization
of their children. (**) Language / Linguistics;
Anthropology
Moving
from the Margins: A Chicana Voice on Public Policy, Adela de
la Torre, Univ of Arizona Press, $16.95 pb, 0-8165-1991-9,
2002.
Drawing from scholar de la Torre's syndicated column in The Los
Angeles Times and other publications, this collection of political
commentaries offers a Chicana perspective on divisive issues such as
immigration reform, health care, bilingual education, and affirmative
action. (****) Latinas; Politics
The
Truth about Alicia and Other Stories, Ana Consuelo
Matiella, Univ of Arizona Press, $14.95 pb, 0-8165-2163-8, or
$24.95 cl, 0-8165-2161-1, 2002.
from the cover... "Truth about Alicia and Other Stories
is an authentic portrayal of the world of contemporary Chicanas that
will delight everyone who enters it." The stories primarily focus on
the various dimensions of love -- between lovers, friends, family.
and the blurb is accurate... I was completely transported by the
stories I read. (****) Fiction: Short Stories; Latinas
**
Recommended
Apology
for the Woman Writing and Other works, Marie deGournay, Edited
& Translated by Richard Hillman and Collette Quesnel, Univ.
of Chicago Press, $17.00 pb, 0-226-30556-2, or $49.00 cl,
0-226-30555-4, 2002.
Series title: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe (**) Women's
Studies; Literature Also of interest
Cholas
and Pishtacos: Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes, Mary
Weismantel, Univ. of Chicago Press, $22.50 pb, 0-226-89154-2, or
$60.00 cl, 0-226-89153-4, 2002.
The chola (a sensual mixed-race woman) and the pishtaco (a horrifying
white killer) become the vehicles for an exploration of race, sec,
and violence in the nades. From field research come an understanding
of the the barriers separating white and indian, male and female
meant to keep from exacerbating inequality. (***) Anthropology;
International: Latin & Central America
Feminism
in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine, Angela
N.H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck and Londa Schiebinger, editors,
Univ. of Chicago Press, $20.00 pb, 0-226-12024-4, or $65.00 cl,
0-226-12023-6, 2002.
It's nice to have a "progress report" on occasion, especially when
changes are not always visible. This collection of essays explores
how feminist theories and practices have had a direct impact on
research in the biological and social sciences, in medicine, and in
technology, often providing the impetus for fundamentally changing
theoretical underpinnings and practices of such research. (**)
Women's Studies; Science/Technology **
Recommended
In
Nature's Name: An Anthlogy of Women's Writing and Illustration,
1780-1930, Barbara T. Gates, editor, Univ. of Chicago
Press, $27.50 pb, 0-226-28446-8, 2002.
From the world of Victorian and Edwardian literature, this collection
gathers stories, poetry, illustrations, travel accounts and more
revealing women's response to and love for the natural world. Writers
include: Isabella Bird, Beatrix Potter, Christina Rossetti and Anna
Sewell among many others. (****) Ecology & Environment;
Literature
Cleopatra:
Beyond the Myth, Michel Chauveau and Translated from the
French by David Lorton, Cornell Univ. Press, $22.50 cl,
0-8014-3867-5, 2002.
In this history, Chauveau looks beyond the myths and propoganda of
Cleopatra to create an understanding of her life and work through
historical facts found in Egyptian sources and classical materials.
(***) Biography; History
Walking
on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance,
Beverly Bell, Cornell Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 0-8014-8748-X,
or $39.95 cl, 0-8014-3951-5, 2002.
38 Haitian women speak of their lives -- resistance, change, heroism,
perseverance, courage, creativity, power... (****) International:
Caribbean; Autobiography/Memoir; Essays of Resistance
**
Recommended
Disciplining
Feminism: From Social Activism to Academic Discourse, Ellen
Messer-Davidow, Duke Univ. Press, $21.95 pb, 0-8223-2843-7, or
$64.95 cl, 0-8223-2829-1, 2002.
Scholars and activists concerned about how academic feminism
intersects with a women's movement towards social change will want to
know about this book. The author traces the ways in which the
entrenchment of feminism within the institution of academia has
increasingly separated it from a national political struggle. (***)
Women's Studies
No
More Separate Spheres!: A Next Wave American Studies Reader,
Cathy N. Davidson and Jessamyn Hatcher, editors, Duke Univ.
Press, $21.95 pb, 0-8223-2893-3, or $64.95 cl, 0-8223-2878-X,
2002.
Part of the Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
series.
Looking at American literature from the nineteenth century, this
collection of essays points scholars and students into a new
direction for understanding binaries (e.g., male public / female
private) and different ways to approach gender in literary studies.
(**) Women's Studies; Literary Criticism
Three
Faces of Beauty: Casablanca, Paris, Cairo, Susan Ossman,
Duke Univ. Press, $18.95 pb, 0-8223-2896-8, or $54.95 cl,
0-8223-2881-X, 2002.
In this comparative ethnographic study, Ossman uses the beauty salon
to explore globalization and cultural change. Through interviews
conducted in Casablanca, Paris, and Cairo she is able to show the
ways in which values, religion and nation intertwine with media,
modernity, postcolonialism and male expectation to define and portray
fashion and "beautiful bodies." (**) Anthropology; Culture; Gender
Studies
Vichy
and the Eternal Feminine: A Contribution to a Political Sociology of
Gender, Francine Muel-Dreyfus and Translated by Kathleen A.
Johnson, Duke Univ. Press, $21.95 pb, 0-8223-2774-0, or $64.95
cl, 0-8223-2777-5, 2002.
Drawing on an extensive body of legislative, religious, educational,
medical, and literary texts, this book examines how the Vichy regime
resurrected the gender politics that had been rejected during
France's social struggles in the 1930s. (**) History; Gender Studies;
International: Western Europe
Also of interest
Domestic
Violence in Medieval Texts, Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin
and Merrall Llewelyn Price, Univ. Press of Florida, $55.00 cl,
0-8130-2442-0, 2002.
(*) History; Violence and Abuse
Also of interest
The Lover as Father Figure in
Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction, Eleanor Wikborg, Univ.
Press of Florida, $55.00 cl, 0-8130-2453-6, 2002.
(*) Literary Criticism
see above in 2001 titles
Humanity Books, Imprint of Prometheus
Eighty
Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897, Unabridged Edition,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Introduction by Denise M. Marshall,
Humanity Books, Imprint of Prometheus, $21.00 pb, 1-59102-009-3,
2002.
"Classics in
Women's Studies."
(****) Women's Studies;
History
The
Man-Made World, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Introduction by
Mary A. Hill, Humanity Books, Imprint of Prometheus, $18.00 pb,
1-57392-959-X, 2002.
With this title, Humanity
Books has inaugurated a new series called "Classics in Women's
Studies."
This series is devoted to
reprinting classic works by feminist writers integral to Women's
Studies. These classic works document the history of women's ongoing
struggle for full equality. (****) Women's Studies;
History
Pornography,
Sex, and Feminism, Alan Soble, Prometheus Books, $28.00
cl, 1-57392-944-1, 2002.
This work challenges both feminist and conservative views of
pornography claiming they take a simplistic, paternalistic and
political views of pornography. Soble defends male sexuality and
pornography from a utilitarian-hedonistic perspective. (***)
Culture/Cultural Studies; Gender Studies
Woman,
Church and State: Unabridged Edition, Matilda Joslyn Gage and
Introduction by Sally Raesch Wagner, Humanity Books, Imprint of
Prometheus, $22.00 pb, 1-59102-007-7, 2002.
"Classics in
Women's Studies." (****) Women's
Studies; History
Behind
the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White
House, Elizabeth Keckley and Edited by Frances Smith
Foster, Univ. of Illinois Press, $19.95 pb, 0-252-07020-8,
2002.
Born in ca. 1924, Elizabeth Keckley lived as a slave but eventually
became a talented dressmaker for Mary Todd Lincoln. This unusual
memoir offers a behind-the-scenes look at the networks of African
American who established themselves after the Civil War. (****)
African-American; History; Autobiography/Memoir
Selected
Letter of Lucretia Coffin Mott, Beverly Wilson Palmer,
Univ. of Illinois Press, $55.00 cl, 0-252-02674-8, 2002.
(****) Women's Studies; History
My
Life as a Radical Jewish Woman, Puah Rakovsky and edited by
Paula Hyman, Indiana University Press, $24.95 cl, 0-253-34042-X,
2002.
A professional educator, Zionist activist and feminist leader, Paula
Rakovky (1865-1955) pursued equality of life for Jewish women in her
homeland (Poland) at the turn-of-the-century. (****)
Autobiography/Memoir; Jewish Women
A
Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by Women,
Marilyn Arnold, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill and Kristen Tracy,
editors, Univ. of Iowa Press, $19.95 pb, 0-87745-812-X, or $44.95
cl, 0-87745-811-1, 2002.
Poems by women from around the world -- some well-known, many not --
are gathred in this handsome volume to raise their voices against the
violence of war and aggression. They acknowledge children, and the
women who mothered children. They rage against the waste and
senseless of war and mourn the loss. The make connections to domestic
situations. they call for peace and healing. (****) Poetry;
International; War/Peace/Anti-Militarism **
Recommended
Embalming
Mom: Essays in Life, Janet Burroway, Univ. of Iowa Press,
$24.95 cl, 0-87745-790-5, 2002.
This title inaugurates a new line of nonfiction for Univ. of Iowa
Press -- Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction
edited by Patricia Hampl and Carl Klaus. In Embalming Mom,
playwright Janet Burroway explores her life and tragedies through a
series of autobiographical essays. (****)
Autobiography/Memoir
From
Beacon Hill to the Crystal Palace: The 1851 Travel diary of a
Working-Class Woman, Lorenza Stevens Berbineau and edited by
Karen L. Kilcup, Univ. of Iowa Press, $27.95 cl, 0-87745-794-8,
2002.
The diary of Lorenza Stevens Berbineau provides and unusual and
unique perspective of a domestic servant working for the wealthy
Lowell family in Boston. She chronicles entries about the people and
places she saw while caring for her young charge, eddie. (****)
Autobiography/Memoir; Travel; Work & Labor
Johns Hopkins University Press
The
Hammer and the Flute: Women, Power, and Spirit Possession,
Mary Keller, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, $38.50 cl,
0-8018-6787-8, 2002.
In many religious traditions, possession of the body by spirits,
deities and ancestors is a common theme -- especially in women. As a
historian of religion informed by postcolonial theory and feminist
philosophy, Keller challenges the opinions that possessed women are
victims of psychological disturbance. She views these women as
paradoxically powerful. (**) Spirituality/Religion;
History
The
Jossey-Bass Reader on Gender in Education, Susan M. Bailey
[forward by], Jossey-Bass Inc., $25.00 pb, 0-7879-6074-8,
2002.
This comprehensive anthology brings together a wide variety of
perspectives on gender issues in education. From biological destiny
to discrimination, achievement gaps to teaching bias, and violence to
interactions with sex, race and class, this will be an indispensable
volume for schools of education and teacher education programs
concerned about educating girls and women -- indeed boys as well as
girls. (***) Education **
Recommended
Wings,
Women, & War: Soviet Airwomen in World War II Combat,
Reina Pennington, Univ. Press of Kansas, $29.95 cl,
0-7006-1145-2, 2002.
(**) History; War/Peace/Anti-Militarism Also of interest
Women
in the Barracks: The VMI Case and Equal Rights, Phillippa
Strum, Univ. Press of Kansas, $34.95 cl, 0-7006-1164-9, 2002.
Strum explores the 150-year history of the Virginia Military
Institute and the legal battles to open the institution to enrollment
for women. Though the first graduating class including women in 2001
signifies some victory, this book explores VMI continual struggle to
integrate women into its curriculum and the challenges to the male
culture of military service. (***) Women's Studies; Discrimination;
Law
Quilt Stories, Cecilia Macheski, editor, Univ. Press of Kentucky, $19.95 pb, 0-8131-0821-7, 2002. This collection of short stories, poems and plays uses the quilt as a significant symbol of women's craft and ingenuity. The 28 writings include authors such as Bobbie Ann Mason, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alice walker, Marge Piercy, Joyce Carol Oates, Robin Morgan and others. (****) Fiction: Anthologies
"Lost
on the Map of the World": Jewish-American Women's Quest for Home in
Essays and Memoirs, 1890-Present, Phillipa Kafka, editor,
Peter Lang Publishing, $22.95 pb, 0-8204-5542-3, 2002.
from the introduction... "This collection of essays and
memoirs by and about jewish women from ca. 1890 to the present
focuses not only on our quest for a home as Jews but on that quest as
it is undertaken specifically by jewish women." Contributors include:
Philippe Codde, Barbara Finkelstein, Ranen Omer-Sherman, Tobin
Belzer, Batya Weinbaum, Ruth Knafo Setton, and Dina Elenbogen. Essays
explore the works of Anzia Yezierska, E.M. Broner, and Erica Jong or
look to the writer's own experiences in life and academia. (***)
Jewish Women; Women's Studies; Literary Criticism
Annie
Adams Fields: Woman of Letters, Rita K. Gollin, Univ of
Massachusetts Press, $45.00 cl, 1-55849-313-1, 2002.
Annie Adams Fields (1834-1915) was a leading figure in 19th century
Boston cultural circles, founder of innovative charities for Boston's
poor, campaigner for women's issues, and --after the death of her
husband -- loving partner with Sarah Orne Jewett with whom she
entered a "Boston marriage." (**) Biography
Anna
Seghers: The Mythic Dimension, Helen Fehervary, Univ. of
Michigan Press, $52.50 cl, 0-472-11215-5, 2002.
Anna Seghers was a Jewish German writer once celebrated in Europe.
(*) Literary Criticism; Biography; History
Our
Women Are Free: Gender and Ethnicity in the Hindukush, Wynne
Maggi, Univ. of Michigan Press, $24.95 pb, 0-472-06783-4, or
$65.00 cl, 0-472-09783-0, 2002.
This book explores the lives of women among the Kalasha, tiny
community in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province and the only
remaining practitioners of the cultural and religious traditions once
extending across the Hindukush into Afghanistan. When asked what
makes the Kalasha unique, both men and women often reply, "Our women
are free." (***) Anthropology; Women's Studies
Passionate
Journeys: Why Successful Women Joined a Cult, Marion S.
Goldman, Univ. of Michigan Press, $19.95 pb, 0-472-08844-0, or
$29.95 cl, 0-472-11101-9 (2000), 2002.
(***) Women's Studies; Culture/Cultural Studies; Social Sciences
Now in paperback
Telling
Incest: Narratives of Dangerous Remembering from Stein to
Sapphire, Janice Doane and Devon Hodges, Univ. of Michigan
Press, $18.95 pb, 0-472-06794-X, or $49.50 cl, 0-472-09794-6,
2002.
Analyzing both fictional and non-fictional narratives about
father-daughter incest, this book poses an alternative set of
questions to the lausibility of incest. Rather than asking "are they
true?" the authos explore "what does a beleivable incest story sound
life and what makes such a story believable?"
The literature they explore includes: Alice Walker The Color
Purple, Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres, Dorothy Allison
Bastard Out of Carolina, Sapphire Push as well as
Gertrude Stein, Louise Armstrong Kiss Daddy Goodnight, 19th
century case records and several other sources. Themes include:
signifying incest, patriarchal power, canonical story, science of
memory, and survivor memoir. (***) Violence and Abuse; Literary
Criticism; Women's Studies **
Recommended
Mothering
across Cultures: Postcolonial Representations, Angelita
Reyes, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $17.95 pb, 0-8166-2353-8, or
$44.95 cl, 0-8166-2351-1, 2002.
Blending personal and historical, practical and theoretical, this
book contextualizes mothering as a human reality and paradigm for
cultural crossings. Through texts from Africa and the African
diaspora -- Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Jean
Rhys, and Mariama Ba -- Reyes establishes mothering in relation to
progressive feminisms. (***) Women's Studies
A
Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral,
Licia Fiol-Matta, Univ. of Minnesota Press, $19.95 pb,
0-8166-3964-7, 2002.
Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) was the first Latin
American to win a Novel Prize for Literature. This work draws on the
political and social essays written by Mistral and "complicates" her
work by showing the ways in which her writings collaborated with
state politics, specifically around issues of Motherhood. The
Fiol-Matta also portrays the ways in which queer subjects -- who may
seem to rebel against state structures -- in fact, participate in and
sustain normative discourses. (**) International: Latin & Central
America; Gay/Lesbian Studies; Literary Criticism; Gender
Studies
Reading
Autobiography: A Guide for Interpeting Life Narratives,
Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, Univ. of Minnesota Press,
$14.95 pb, 0-8166-2883-1, or $37.95 cl, 0-8166-2882-3, 2002.
(**) Literary Criticism Also of interest
Sex
and Money: Feminism and Political Economy in the Media, Eileen
R. Meehan and Ellen Riordan, editors, Univ. of Minnesota Press,
$19.95 pb, 0-8166-3788-1, or $49.95 cl, 0-8166-3787-3, 2002.
The essays in this collection uses the media to show how questions of
gender and economics are inextricably linked to issues of power in
Western capitalism. They are gathered around three themes: 1)
Theorizing the Connections: Sex, Money, Media; 2) In the Public
Sphere: Work, Technology, Law, and 3) In the Private Sphere:
Entertainment, identity, Consumption. (***) Women's Studies;
Culture/Cultural Studies
"The
Penalty is Death": U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Women's Executions,
Marlin Shipman, Univ. of Missouri Press, $34.95 cl,
0-8262-1386-3, 2002.
This history of journalism examines the shifts in press coverage of
women's executions over the past 150 years. It also considers issues
of race, ethnicity, family relations, domestic violence, sexual
preference, and Hollywood influence among many factors. (***) Women's
Studies; Culture/Cultural Studies; History
Writing
the Pioneer Woman, Janet Floyd, Univ. of Missouri Press,
$32.50 cl, 0-8262-1381-2, 2002.
Using the autobiographical novels of British and Anglo-American
female emigrants, Floyd explores the domestic details of pioneering
women. this work focuses as much on diapora and migration theory as
well as adding to the discourse on domestication. (**) Literary
Criticism; History
Imagining
Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects, Carolee
Schneemann, MIT Press, $39.95 cl, 0-262-19459-7, 2002.
A pioneer in performance, installation and video art, the work of
Carolee Schneemann prefigured the feminist movement's discussions on
women's sexuality. She was the among the first artists to use her own
body to animate relationships between experience and imagination.
This collection, impressive in its presentation and breadth, presents
the major themes of her diverse work in painting, collage, drawing,
and video sculptures with written material drawn from journals, dream
diaries, essays and lectures. 356 pages & 150 illustations (****)
Art: Performance, Experimental, Cross Platform; Arts: Art,
Photography; Autobiography/Memoir
Leash,
Jane DeLynn, Semiotext (Distributed by MIT Press), $12.95 pb,
0-58435-014-8, 2002.
from the press release..."Part Georges Bataille, part Fran
Leibowitz, this is the Story of O told with a
self-referentially perverse sense of humor. Leash extends the
logic of s/m to its inexorable and startling conclusion, darkly and
hilariously revealing the masochistic impulse as the urge to
disappear from the chores, obligations, and emotional vacuity of
daily life." (****) Fiction: Lesbian
Unlocking
the Clubhouse: Women in Computing, Jane Margolis and Allan
Fisher, MIT Press, $24.95 cl, 0-262-13398-9, 2002.
Through interviews with more than 100 computer students from both
sexes at Carnegie Mellon University as well as classroom observations
and hundreds of conversations with college and high school faculty,
the authors investigate the familial, educational, and institutional
origins of the computing gender gap. Though women surf websites and
make up a large number of online consumers, few are involved in the
design and creation of the technology.They also outline some of the
educational reforms happening at Carnegie Mellon to point a way for
encouraging more women into the technology of computing. (***)
Science/Technology; Women's Studies
A
Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather, Janis P. Stout,
editor, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $60.00 cl, 0-8032-4293-X,
2002.
Cather's letters are prohibited for publication until 2017 by the
terms of her will. however, Stout has cataloged over 1800 letters --
all the ones known to be available -- and provided a short summary of
each. (****) Literary Criticism
Phantom
Limb, Janet Sternburg, Univ. of Nebraska Press, $20.00 cl,
0-8032-4296-4, 2002.
In this moving memoir, Sternburg uses the metaphor of phantom pain in
a lost limb to describe the ways in which those who mourn the death
of loved ones feel they have phantom limbs -- someone no longer with
us who remains a part of us. (****) Autobiography/Memoir
**
Recommended
Turtle
Lung Woman's Granddaughter, Delphine Red Shirt, Univ. of
Nebraska Press, $26.95 cl, 0-8032-3947-5, 2002.
This story weaves together several generations of Lakota women, told
in their own words. They include the author's mother, her mother's
grandmother, her own grandmother showing the hardships and
celebrations of growing up in the early 20th century. (****) Native
American; Biography
When
Montana and I Were Young: A Frontier Childhood, Margaret Bell
and Edited and with an introduction by Mary Clearman Blew, Univ.
of Nebraska Press, $24.95 cl, 0-8032-1325-5, 2002.
This is a rare primary account of a child's life during the early
part of the twentieth century (Margaret Bell, 1888-1982) in the high
plains of Canada and Montana. She eventually became a rancher and
horse breaker. (****) Biography
bonelight:
ruin and grace in the new southwest, Mary Sojourner, Univ.
of Nevada Press, $21.95 cl, 0-87417-510-0, 2002.
These 51 essays, collected from Sojourner's commentatires on National
Public Radio, share this activist's passion for land and the
environment. It is a strong call to action and activism on land
development and other related issues. (****) Literature; Ecology
& Environment
Chicana Ways: Conversations with Ten Chicana Writers, Karin
Rosa Ikas, Univ. of Nevada Press, $19.95 pb, 0-87417-361-2, or
$29.95 cl, 0-87417-493-7, 2002.
The women represented in this collection of conversations cover all
genres such as poetry, mystery novels, short stories, autobiography,
essay and critical thinking, one-woman shows, children's literature
and more. Each interview not only covers personal backgrounds and
influences but also addresses issues such as race, gender,
homophobia, class, generational concerns, sense of self as woman and
Chicana, and writer. The women interviewed are: Gloria
Anzaldúa, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Denise Chávez, Lucha
Corpi, Jamie Lujan, Demetria Martínez, Par Mora,
Cherríe Moraga, Mary Helen Ponce and Estela Portillo-Tramblay.
(****) Literary Criticism; Latinas
Chorizos
in an Iron Skillet: Memories and Recipes from an American Basque
Daughter, Mary Ancho Davis, Univ. of Nevada Press, $21.95
pb, 0-87417-445-7, 2002.
Cooking and cultural studies...one of my favorite combinations!
(****) Autobiography/Memoir; Food Issues **
Recommended
My
Mother's Lovers: (A Novel), Joy Passanante, Univ. of
Nevada Press, $17.00 pb, 0-87417-495-3, 2002.
Lake Rose Davis is the only child of former hippies who settled in a
small Idaho mill town. in this coming-of-age story, Lake struggles
with the eccentricity of her family, her mother's infidelities, her
aunt's search for love, and her own yearnings about sexuality and
family. Debut novel. (****) Fiction; Regional: West
Small
Rocks Rising, Susan Lang, Univ. of Nevada Press, $17.00
pb, 0-87417-504-6, 2002.
This novel of the early 1900s portrays the struggles, determination,
passions, complexities and lessons learned of a woman homesteader
trying to make it on her own in the Southern California desert. This
book has received praise from Mage Piercy who calls it an "unusual
and compelling narrative of a young woman's struggle to survive and
flourish in the wilderness that others want to deny her." (****)
Fiction; Regional: West
American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States, Sheridan Harvey, Janice Ruth, Barbara Natanson, Sara Day and Evelyn Sinclair, editors, Library of Congress (Distributed by University Press of New England), $35.00 pb, 0-8444-1048-9, 2002. For those who have wanted to delve into the collection at the Library of Congress for work related to women, this book will steer you to the places you need. This work is a culmination of 4-years of research across the Library's collections. Filled with pictures, sources, references, this interdisciplinary and multicultural effort will be indispensable for researchers and writers. It represents a rich collection of papers, manuscripts, papers, movements, stories, archives, graphic materials, sound recordings, motion pictures -- a treasure trove of information. (****) History; Women's Studies ** Recommended
Shulamith,
Julia Stein, West End Press (distributed by Univ. of New Mexico
Press), $9.95 pb, 0-9705344-3-4, 2002.
These poems treat the condition of Jewish women in the Bible. (****)
Poetry
New
York University Press (NYU)
The
Akhmatova Journals: Volume 1: 1938-1941, Lydia Chukovskaya,
Translated from the Russian by Milena and Sylva Rubashova Michalski
and Poetry translated from the Russian by Peter Norman,
Northwestern Univ. Press, $24.95 pb, 0-8101-1940-4, 2002.
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) was one of the greatest Russian poets of
the century. Her friend, Lydia Chukovskaya (1907-96), kept journals
of their intimate conversations offering a rare look into Akhmatova's
life. (****) Biography; International: Russia & Slavic
Little
River: New and Selected Poems, Linda McCarriston,
Northwestern Univ. Press, $12.95 pb, 0-8101-5133-2, or $49.95 cl,
0-8101-5132-4, 2002.
from the cover..."McCarriston draws from the lives of fellow
human beings and from those of animals, too, the telling moments,
metaphors, and myths of family life, social structures, and
gender."
This poet is the author of Talking Soft Dutch and Eva-Mary and a
finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. (****)
Poetry
Mother
in Summer, Susan Hahn, Northwestern Univ. Press, $15.95
pb, 0-8101-5130-8, or $39.95 cl, 0-8101-5129-4, 2002.
from the cover... "It is an avid, near maniacal, utterly
grief-stricken Book of the Mother....the feeling accrues from poem to
poem until the overall effect is that of reading a single long poem."
(****) Poetry
Between
Women and Generations: Legacies of Dignity, Drucilla
Cornell, Palgrave Macmillan (Global Publishing from St. Martin's
Press), $26.95 cl, 0-312-29430-1, 2002.
This book focuses on the ways in which all women have dignity. (****)
Women's Studies; Women's Studies
Dinah's
Daughters: Gender and Judaism from the Hebrew Bible to Late
Antiquity, Helena Zlotnick, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press,
$19.95 pb, 0-8122-1797-7, or $55.00 cl, 0-8122-3644-0, 2002.
Zlotnick looks at female Jewishness in a comparative context. She
does so not only through various aspects of Jewish literary tradition
(Hebrew bible, midrashic, Mishnaic, and talmudic texts) but also in
relation to a Mediterranean context (Greek, Roman, and non-Israelites
and gentiles). (**) Jewish Women; Literature
Double
Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England,
Clare A. Lees and Gillian Overing, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Press, $49.95 cl, 0-8122-3628-9, 2002.
This work creates a cultural record as it explores the meaning and
implications of women's absence and presence in the partial history
of Anglo-Saxon culture. (*) History; Women's Studies
Measuring
Up: How Advertising Affects Self-Image, Vickie Rutledge
Shields and with Dawn Heinecken, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press,
$19.95 pb, 0-8122-1791-8, or $49.95 cl, 0-8122-3631-9, 2002.
This work adds to the on-going discussion of the use and portrayal of
bodies in advertising images. The authors not only analyze the
textual issues related to portraying "perfect" bodies but adds the
unique perspective of audience reception to the images. They includes
the voices of women and men and how media images affect their
thoughts, feelings, and behavior. (***) Culture/Cultural Studies;
Gender Studies
Also of interest
Medieval Woman's Song: Cross-Cultural
Approaches, Anne L. Klinck and Ann Marie Rasmussen,
editors, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, $34.95 cl, 0-8122-3624-6,
2002.
(**) Music; History
Protest,
Policy and the Problem of Violence Against Women: A Cross-National
Comparison, S. Laurel Weldon, Univ. of Pittsburgh Press,
$19.95 pb, 0-8229-5774-4, or $45.00 cl, 0-8229-4171-6, 2002.
This comparative study looks at the public policy of 36 democratic
governments and the differences in their responses (or lack thereof)
to violence against women. Seeking the root causes for these
differences, Weldon makes links between the strengths and autonomy of
women's movements, women's policy agencies, and their access to
resources as indicative of governmental policy response. (***)
Violence and Abuse; Politics; Women's Studies
The
Zoo, Joanie Mackowski, Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, $12.95
pb, 0-8229-5768-X, 2002.
Winner of the 2000 Associated Writing Program Award for poetry.
from the cover... "Turning an idiosnncratic eye to the
inhabitants of zoos and fish tanks, cafes and cemeteries, she
illuminates details that make the familiar seem strange." (****)
Poetry
Aftermath:
Violence and the Remaking of the Self, Susan Brison,
Princeton Univ. Press, $19.95 cl, 0-691-01619-4, 2002.
Using her own experience of being reaped and left for dead, Brison
embarks on a personal narrative of recovery and philosophical
exploration of trauma, examining the undoing and remaking of a self
in the aftermath of violence. This is an interdisciplinary study of
memoir, philosophy, psychology exploring memory and truth, identity
and self, autonomy and community. (****) Violence and Abuse;
Philosophy; Autobiography/Memoir
Women
in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium, Judith Herrin,
Princeton Univ. Press, $29.95 cl, 0-691-09500-0, 2002.
This history tells the stories of 3 Byzantine empresses -- Irene,
Euphrosyne and Theodora. (**) History
Also of interest
The Fate of Knowledge, Helen
Longino, Princeton Univ. Press, $16.95 pb, 0-691-08876-4, or
$49.50 cl, 0-69108875-6, 2002.
(**) Philosophy; Science/Mathematics
Bisexuality
Spaces: A Geography of Sexuality and Gender, Clare
Hemmings, Routledge, $23.95 pb, 0-415-93083-9, 2002.
Combining queer theory with social geography, autobiographical,
archival and media sources, hemming insists on the importance of
bisexuality in lesbian, transgendered and queer spaces. (***)
Sexuality; Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies; Women's Studies
Emotionally
Involved: The Impact of Researching Rape, Rebecca
Campbell, Routledge, $21.95 pb, 0-415-92594-0, 2002.
One of the contributions of feminist research has been to understand
the subjectivity of the researcher in relationship to the
"researched." This powerful books adds to this important body or
research literature by exploring her own feelings while doing
interviews with more than 100 rape survivors. (****) Women's Studies;
Social Sciences; Psychology
Equality
Practice: Civil Unions and the Future of Gay Rights, William
N. Eskridge, Jr., Routledge, $17.95 pb, 0-415-93073-1, 2002.
As a transitional step, the Vermont legalized unions for same-sex
couples still does not deliver many other legal rights -- tax
benefits, health insurance, property rights, parental arrangements,
etc. The author argues shows why the Vermont decision creates the
conditions for equal treatment for same-sex relationships. (***)
Gay/Lesbian/Queer Studies; Marriage & Sexuality
No
More Secrets: Violence in Lesbian Relationships, Janice L.
Ristock, Routledge, $21.95 pb, 0-415-92946-6, 2002.
It's been 15 years since Kerry Lobel's Naming the Violence and
many years since that book has been unavailable. Finally, there's a
new book exploring a topic too long ignored and, sadly, extremely
important to acknowledge -- violence within lesbian relationships.
Based on numerous interviews with lesbians who have suffered violence
ad domestic violence caseworkers, this book reveals untold stories
and also offers insights for counselors and therapists for helping
women in abusive relationships. (****) Lesbian Studies; Violence and
Abuse **
Recommended
Queering
India: Same-sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society,
Ruth Vanita, editor, Routledge, $22.95 pb, 0-415-92950-4,
2002.
This collection of essays explores the topic of same-sex love in
India through disciplines such as film, literature, popular culture,
historical and religious texts, and law. (***) Gay/Lesbian/Queer
Studies; International: Asia
Women's
Activism and Globalization: Linking Local Struggles and Transnational
Politics, Nancy A. Naples and Manisha Desai, editors,
Routledge, $23.95 pb, 0-415-93145-2, 2002.
from the introduction, p. 3... "Community-based social change
efforts seem all too limited when placed up against the structures of
inequality that shape the wider political and economic
context....This book seeks to make visible the relationship between
local organizing efforts and global economic restructuring as well as
to highlight the contradictions of transnational feminist politics."
(***) Women's Studies; International; Politics **
Recommended
For
Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children
and Families, Greg J. Duncan and P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale,
editors, Russell Sage Foundation, $42.50 cl, 0-87154-245-5,
2002.
Now that many recipients are at the end of their terms for receiving
welfare assistance, this important volume explores how people are
currently faring. Divided into three sections, this first group of
essays review the history of welfare in the US and how individual
states have redesigned and implemented their own systems. The middle
section addresses how families and children are faring while the
third section turns its attention to future policy approaches and
options. (***) Social Sciences
Aftershocks
of the New Feminism and Film History, Patrice Petro,
Rutgers Univ. Press, $22.00 pb, 0-8135-2996-4, or $60.00 cl,
0-8135-2995-6, 2002.
This collection of essays explore feminist film theories through the
filters of German cinema, visual culture, and critical theory. Petro
suggests claims aftershocks -- another side to modernity after
the shock of the new -- of feminist films and German cinema continue
to shape modern existence. (**) Arts: Film, Video; History;
International: Western Europe
American
Women of Letter and the Nineteenth-Century Sciences: Styles of
Affiliation, Nina Baym, Rutgers Univ. Press, $22.00 pb,
0-8135-2985-9, or $60.00 cl, 0-8135-2984-0, 2002.
This book documents the age of invention and 19th century science as
seen through the female enthusiasts who conceded they could not
become scientists but who were supporters of the discipline and
wanted to learn as much about science as possible. (***) Women's
Studies; Science and women; Literature
The
Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past,
Lisa Gail Collins, Rutgers Univ. Press, $26.00 pb,
0-8135-3022-9, or $60.00 cl, 0-8135-3021-0, 2002.
Through the work of contemporary African American women artists,
Collins confronts four problems in the historical representations:
documentation of the truth; status of the Black female body;
relationship between art and cultural contract and change; and the
status of Black girlhood. Artists such as Julie Dash, Carrie Mae
Weems, Lorna Simpson and Carla Williams -- to name a few -- use the
visual to explore historical injustice. (****) Arts: Art,
Photography; African-American
Rare
and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de
Macedo Soares, Carmen L. Oliveira and Translated by Neil K.
Besner, Rutgers Univ. Press, $26.00 cl, 0-8135-3033-4, 2002.
This is the tale of two artists -- Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de
Macedo Soares -- from two cultures (the U.S. and Brazil) who fell in
love. In a novelistic style it follows their relationship between
1951 to 1967 when the two lived together in Brazil. (****)
Biography
Appropriate[ing]
Dress: Women's Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-Century America,
Carol Mattingly, Southern Illinois Univ. Press, $25.00 pb,
0-8093-2428-8, 2002.
(**) Women's Studies Also of interest
Gender
and Rhetorical Space in American Life, 1866-1910, Nan
Johnson, Southern Illinois Univ. Press, $25.00 pb, 0-8093-2426-1,
2002.
During the postbellum years, women's rhetorical spaces -- though
encouraged -- were relegated to home and domestic spheres.Johnson
illustrates the intersections of rhetoric and feminism in the 19th
century. (**) Women's Studies
The
Chinese Women's Movement Between State and Market, Ellen R.
Judd, Stanford Univ. Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8047-4406-8, or $45.00
cl, 0-8047-4405-X, 2002.
For people looking for contemporary strategies to promote education,
literacy and training for women in rural settings in order to improve
their involvement in market competition, this book will be a helpful
guide. It adds to the literature on gender and development and
creates new signposts for the women's movement. (***) International:
Asia; Anthropology; Women's Studies
Also of interest
First Converts: Rich Pagan Women and
the Rhetoric of Mission in Early Judaism and Christianity,
Shelly Matthews, Stanford Univ. Press, $49.50 cl,
0-8047-3592-1, 2002.
(**) History; Spirituality/Religion
Women
and Property in China, 960-1949, Kathryn Bernhardt,
Stanford Univ. Press, $19.95 pb, 0-8047-3527-1, 2002.
(*) History; Law; Women's Studies
State
Univ. of New York Pr. (SUNY)
Among
Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient
World, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger, editors,
Univ. of Texas Press, $50.00 cl, 0-292-77113-4, 2002.
These essays explore the gap in textual and archaeological evidence
for women's homosocial and homoerotic relationships from prehistoric
Greece to 5th century ce Egypt. (***) Lesbian Studies; History
Also of interest
A
Reader in Latina Feminist Theology: Religion and Justice,
María Pilar Aquino, Daisy L. Machado and Leanette
Rodríguez, editors, Univ. of Texas Press, $19.95 pb,
0-292-70512-3, or $50.00 cl, 0-292-70509-3, 2002.
This first-of-its-kind volume of 12 original essays brings the voices
of emerging and established Latina feminist theologians to the larger
feminist theological discourse. These writings present a variety of
communities -- Puerto Rican, Cuban, Hispanic, Ecuadorian, Mexican --
and a range of traditions -- Catholic and Protestant. They explore
faith, liberation, race, gender, nationhood and other realities
experienced by Latina women in religion and community. (****)
Latinas; Spirituality/Religion **
Recommended
Copyright 2002• Mev Miller, Editor, Feminist Academic Press
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